Visitors
battle the rain to tour the Museums C-124 (in the background)
and C-141 (above). Members from the 446th AW manned the
"Tacoma StarLifter" during the Air Expo.

After
a 2 year hiatus more than 120,000 visitors walked though the
gates of McChord AFB to enjoy this years edition of the Bases
Air Expo featuring the USAF Thunderbirds. This year’s show
was limited to one day (Sunday June 13) because
of worldwide commitments currently performed by members
of the 62d and 446th Airlift Wings.

Museum
volunteers with the C-124, members of the 446th AW manning the
museums C-141 and 62 AW crew members manning one of their hard
working C-17 Globemaster III's gave visitors their last chance
to see three generations of airlift history on the McChord
Ramps. It has been announced that that the C-124C Globemaster
II, C141B Starlifter will soon be moved to McChord's
"overlook hill" for permanent display making this
the last time the two aircraft will be participating at the
Air Expo.

Newcomers
to the Expo was the Museums F-102 Delta Dagger, BDU-12/B
Nuclear Practice Bomb, BDU-32 Nuclear Loading practice bomb,
ATR-2 Nuclear Training Rocket
all joined by
one of the more common sights at McChord air shows, the
Museums B-18 Bolo all under extensive restoration. Another
restoration project highlighted at this years show was the
F-106 Delta Dart restoration project named “Fix-A-Six”
were many of the project fundraising items were made available
to Airshow visitors. (Information on this project and
fundraising items can be found on the FIX-A-SIX
page on this site.)

PHOTO
BY ERNEST
WHITE
McCHORD AIR MUSEUM

The
museums B-18 Bolo (l), F-102 Delta Dagger (c) and C-124
Globemaster II (r) were all on display at the 2003 McChord Air
expo held on July 13.